3 Legged Race- Scrapbook Page by Tania

Hi Scrappingclearly Community, hope you are all enjoying our challenges this month. You've still got a few days left to upload them over on our FB Community Page.

Today, I'm sharing with you, my take on the moodboard by Peg!!! In fact, I think my layout is a little Peg inspired actually!!! The moodboard was just begging for some Mixed Media Action!!!

I have some great new products from the store! My kit had some awesome Products from Vicki Boutin, read about them here! (And see them in the shop here:). (Just perfect for my Mixed Media background!)

I started with a page from my Chickaniddy 365 collection- Weekend Wonder. (On special in the store.) Then, on some white cardstock, I used one of the gorgeous, Heidi Swapp screen prints with some of her Black, Art Screen Ink. OMG...the combination of these two products was enough to get the creative juices flowing. This stuff, not only has a lovely sparkle and shine to it, but it also has a rough, sandpaper-like texture to it aswell. I love it!!! The screen prints are slightly different to stencils, work almost the same, but have the added bonus of a sticky back so they don't slip when adding colour to your project!!!

When that was dry, I added a layer of spray ink with Dylusions, let it dry and using some Dusty Attic stencils & a circle stencil, I used the Vicki Boutin, Art Crayons #3, by drawing inside the stencil first with the crayon, and then adding a smidge of water with my finger to blend them. They work similar to Gelatos. They are a water soluble, oil pastel, and can be used wet or dry. i love them, they are thick and creamy.

Building my layers, I added some black, background stamping with a Kaisercraft stamp, a script stamp and then some washi tape, and some more papers from the Chickaniddy 365 range. There's a tag from the Teresa Collins, Something Wonderful collection, some twine and a cute flair from my stash.

I flicked some black Dylusions spray ink on the top and bottom corners, and then used the cute striped alpha stickers from Chickaniddy 365.

And here's the final result! Complete with some painted, black wood veneer from Studio Calico!

I hope I've inspired you to have a play with a mixed media background for this challenge, but would love to see your projects, no matter what style you prefer!!! Happy scrapping!!!

Total Silliness page by Tania

Hello Scrappy friends! Today I'm playing along with our January sketch challenge, and hope to give you a little inspiration. Here is the sketch as a reminder!

This one is by Peg, and I love the simplicity of it!!! My layout came together rather quickly!

I started with a mixed media background. First thing was a cute little Heidi Swapp circle stencil and some gorgeous Prima Art Alchemy paint in Opal Magic!!! I seriously love this stuff!!! You can see how sometimes the circles look blue, and if you hold the paper in a different spot, under the light, it looks gold! I also have some Dylusions Mica sprays on my desk, so sprayed some Vibrant Turquiose over the top. So shiny!!!

I did some stamping, and added some patterned papers by Chickaniddy, (these are on special in the shop right now...I have linked right to it!!!), and this gorgeous Maggie Holmes black and gold piece I have been hanging on to for the right project!!! I used my die cutting machine to cut the circles.

My title consists of some Heidi Swapp puffy word stickers and a Heidi Swapp water colour word, which I painted with Dylusions paint and watered it down. I placed a layer of Glossy accents over the top to make it pop!

I really enjoy using sketches, it makes a layout come together so much faster!!! If you would like to view the products I used, I have linked each one back to the Scrappingclearly store! Hope you get the chance to play along with this one!

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1..layout by Tania

I'm back with you today, sharing some more yummy papers from the Chickaniddy, 365 Range and some cute little accessories from a few of my favourite companies. All available in the Scrappingclearly store!  my layout is based on this month's moodboard, which I have to say I actually struggled with. I am a fan of brights, but found it a bit of a challenge!!! Wonder what you can come up with, here is the board:

So, the yellow and red screamed out to me the most, and they are the main colours in my board. I started with a few of the Chickaniddy papers for the background, then my photo layers were made up of some Heidi Swapp, Oh What fun vellum, & some cut outs from the Chickaniddy, Daily Schedule paper. 

I embellished with some cute wood veneers from Studio Calico, and the title wood veneer numbers are from the Teresa Collins Something Wonderful range. Love those numbers!

And what about that cute puffy sticker from MAMBI!!! Love it!

I finished off by adding some word stickers from the Heidi Swapp, September Skies range, and added my date with the most adorable little Heidi Swapp Memory Planner, wooden stamps.

I hope you get the chance to play along with our challenges this month!!! My next post will be my take on the sketch!!!

See you then

More Travel themed pages with Tania

Hi all, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 2017, WOW!! Let's hope it's a fantastic one for us all!

Today I'm sharing a couple more pages in my Heidi Swapp travel themed book. I shared my first page with you last month, you can see it here: 

I have been playing with the Chickaniddy 365 paper range, and used some off cuts and cut outs for my pages. I've also used the Heidi Swapp washi tape stickers &  sheer stickers  from her Memory Planner range & her September Skies word jumble stickers. 

I am quite in love with this way of memory keeping! It means I can document bits and pieces of my holiday, with no stress, limited products and it takes no time at all to put a spread together. The books come in different themes too. But this one is versatile, the pages are still a blank waiting for you to record your memories as you wish! I hope you like!!!

Cards inspired by the Moodboard! By Tania...

Well hello again! I sure hope you all had a wonderful Christmas celebration wherever you were! I had a very quiet Christmas, and was not well, so lucky for me, we had planned on a quiet one! I have had a little mojo here and there to help me feel better. This time I've made some cards for you, based on inspiration from the colours of this month's moodboard! Which is here: 

What a gorgeous moodboard, don't you think? You still have a few days left to play along ;)

So here's my cards, using mainly the Pink Paislee, C'est La Vie collection.

There are also some papers from the Chickaniddy 365 collection. 

The C'est La Vie printed acetate is gorgeous! This floral one was perfect for a card front, I backed it with some plain patterned paper.

Don't you love these cute little bows from Maggie Homes & Crate paper? This one made the perfect final addition to the C'est La Vie ephemera.

This card I've made for my daughter's upcoming birthday next month. I finished it off with a gold tag from the ephemera pack and a Heidi Swapp, gold, acetate word. 

This one has a touch of Heidi Swapp Wanderlust, lace, and a little Studio Calico wood veneer arrow.

I placed some mounting tape underneath the banner ends to make them pop off the paper.

I made an extra card using up some left overs from a previous Design Team kit, which was the Maggie Holmes Bloom range. I used a stencil from The Crafters Workshop from the Scrappingclearly store, and coloured some texture paste. That gold foil vellum has gone a long way, I just love it!

Well, I hope I've inspired you to give the moodboard a go. If you don't have time to scrapbook, you can always make up a few cards, which will always come in handy!

Till next time!

Moodboard inspired layout, by Tania

HELLO.....I'm here to share my layout, titled, 'BEAUTIFUL'! And it's my take on the moodboard this month!!! Here is the moodboard in case you haven't seen it!!!

So, here's my layout!! I'm using some Chickaniddy papers this month!!! And loads of other gorgeous delights from the Scrappingclearly store which I will link you to, as we go along!!!

I started my background by spongeing a thin layer of Gesso around the photo. I then used a Dusty Attic stencil and some gorgeous 'BLING' & 'JUST BLUE' colour paste.

Once that was dry, I did a tiny bit of stamping around the colour paste with a Kaisercraft, tiny dots stamp, & a cute little wooden Heidi Swapp heart stamp from her Memory Planner range! Then, it was all about the layers behind my photo. I've used a mixture of the Chickaniddy papers again, plus some Prima packaging, (from some flowers). There's also a few pieces of that gorgeous Maggie Holmes, gold foil vellum which I had left over from a previous project! I did add a few gold accents on this layout! At the very bottom, there's a strip of the We R' Memory Keepers, Clearly Posh acetate, and in the photo below, you can see my Gold, Heidi Swapp acetate word I used, for my title.

Below the title is a cute little, Flea Market bow...I love these, from Maggie Holmes & Crate Paper!!! You'll see I have a paper drinking straw behind my layers, some washi tape, then there's the flower cluster, which is made up of some Prima sugar blooms & other smaller flowers. I coloured some white leaves, using Distress stain.

I hope I have inspired you to play along with our moodboard this month. don't forget there's a sketch too. You can link up your challenges over on the facebook page now. See the link above!!!

Favourite Photo layout by Tania

Hi lovely Scrappingclearly peeps, I'm here with you today, sharing a layout, using the gorgeous '365' range by Chickaniddy!!! (I love these products!)

I've used 4 of the papers: Measured Memories, The Good Life, (my background page), Daily Schedule and Smell the Roses! There are some great cut outs in the Daily Schedule paper, of which I used quite a few! 

I wanted to throw in just a touch of yellow to match the flower centres in the bottom corner, so I flicked a little Dylusions spray ink in Pure Sunshine near my cluster and below the photo! I also added a slight touch of pink watercolour, with a gelato!

I absolutely love the puffy, camera stickers from Mambi! There's a few little wood veneers from Studio Calico on there, and that lovely 'Wonderful' wood veneer, word is from Teresa Collins! I have journaled on the memo card at top, and tucked behind my photo!

Hope you can take a look at the Chickaniddy range, it is really lovely! Great for Project Life Scrapping too! Don't forget there is still time to play along with the Sketch and Moodboard challenges this month, would love to see what you come up with, and don't forget we are now asking that you upload your entries via the Facebook community page only!

you + me

Happy holidays everyone, I am really enjoying our school break. 

So many exciting things are happening and it's that time of year for CHA. So many new products to swoon over!! What is your favourite?

Anyway I'm slightly side tracked, here is my take on the January sketch and I decided to turn it around. We can't wait to see your interpretation.

 This paper range is called Chickaniddy from the Yippee collection. I used lots of the different papers onto white cardstock to add layers and tags. Then some of the layers were matted with black to add contrast.

I used the sequin threads instead of the paint drips. The black and white stickers are from Heidi Swapp.

 Gorgeous gold sparkly foam word thickers (you + me) are from the Cedar Lane collection.

 Close up of the sequins and foam letters.

 My tag has journaling and on the other side I added an extra photo and some washi tape.

Have a lovely day and enjoy your holidays!

Michelle xx